Head of Avionics

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic. The Role: We're looking for a Head of Avionics who has genuinely built complex avionics systems, not managed programs or reviewed other people's work, but gotten their hands into the architecture, made hard tradeoffs, and shipped something real. You'll own the avionics stack end-to-end: hardware architecture, embedded systems, sensing, networking, autonomy integration, and the test infrastructure to verify all of it. You'll be a technical leader and a hands-on contributor, setting the direction while staying deep enough to know when something is wro...